Accredited CBT Psychotherapist with 17+ years’ experience across NHS, charity and private practice, specialising in chronic pain, persistent symptoms, long-term health conditions and neurodiversity.
Book a sessionI am an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with over 17 years’ experience working across the NHS, charitable organisations, and private practice. My work focuses on supporting adults living with chronic pain, long-term health conditions, and/or neurodiversity, particularly where symptoms are exhausting, fluctuating, or difficult to fully explain or manage medically. I specialise in the psychological and emotional impact of ongoing health difficulties and/or neurodiversity, including pain, fatigue, gastrointestinal conditions, migraine, tinnitus, and other chronic or functional symptoms. Many of the people I work with feel worn down by symptoms, uncertainty, and repeated attempts to “fix” their bodies and may also experience anxiety, low mood, frustration, or a loss of trust in themselves. My approach integrates evidence-based CBT with mindfulness-based and mind–body-informed approaches. I am particularly interested in how stress and learned patterns can contribute to the persistence of symptoms, and how therapy can help to reduce symptoms and improve resilience and quality of life. Therapy with me is collaborative, compassionate, and carefully paced. I aim to create a space where people feel understood rather than pushed, and where change happens gradually and sustainably. Sessions are adapted to each person’s capacity, needs, and goals, and I work alongside medical care where appropriate. Alongside my professional training, my work is informed by lived experience of chronic health conditions and neurodiversity, which helps me bring realism, sensitivity, and respect for the limits that long-term symptoms can place on daily life.